Bitcoin Is Optimism, With Alex Gladstein
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Bitcoin - What Is a Successful 2023 Look Like?
I think it's fair to say that the current world, wherever you stand, is broken. The incentives suck. Even if you're a pro capitalist, you have to acknowledge that quote unquote capitalism is wreaking havoc in the global south. But Bitcoin system just has different incentives. Because everything's open and it's one standard, it's very, very different from the monopolist kind of capitalist structures we've had in the past. Like this is a system that trends potentially towards cooperation and lowering the cost for people. This year as I started to sort of notice this incentive, the design of Bitcoin, like maybe really, really paying off it in terms of empowering communities and maybe even nations
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